Question: The chart below shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the rate of families owned and rented accommodation in U.K and Wales from 1918 and 2011, a period of nearly 100 years.

Overall

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, the highest rate in 1918 was renting homes,

whereas

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the lowest rate was owning buildings.

On the other hand

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, owned houses increased sharply in 1939,

In contrast

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renting dropped slightly in the same year. Looking at the details,

although

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rented accommodation was the highest owning one in1918, at about 78%

However

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owned was the lowest in 1918, at approximately 33%. The families owning buildings increased gradually from about 22 to around 33 percent almost by 11 proportion a period of nearly 25 years. After a sharp climb in the ratio of owning, the renting proportion decreased gradually

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the owning jumped significantly from nearly 23% to about 70% in 2001 Looking at more details can see that the percentage of owning was approximately 70 per cent. On the other contrary, the percentage of renting was almost 32%.

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to that, the ratio of owning houses was exactly 50 per cent in 1971.